I would like to share about stock Social Phonebook on the new 2.1 update.
This is what I found so far. And please share what you found too.
As far we know Social Phonebook will automatically Join our contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo Messenger, Spotify, etc.
I. Facebook Integration
The most annoying one is when it change my phonebook name with the name from facebook. This is what I found about it.
1. SP (Social Phonebook) will automatically join contact from phonebook when it has the same name (first and last) or phone number or email. And it will show us the name from facebook.
2. If we join manually and our phonebook first name has the same name as the facebook first name, it will show you the name from the facebook. Example: phonebook name John, facebook name John Doe, it will show as John Doe.
3. If we join manually and have different first name from phonebook and different name from facebook, it will show us the name from phonebook. Example : phonebook name JOE, facebook name John Doe, it will show as JOE.
II. Yahoo Messenger, PingChat, and ... (haven't try more than that) Integration
Our new SP is a more complicated than the last phonebook. It has a lot more feature. It can even integrate with YM, PingChat and I assume a lot more.
1. If you put Yahoo IM in your phonebook and have YM official app at the same time. It will integrate seamlessly. Everytime you click your contact YM it will automatically in the chat mode at your YM app. You can even directly sms your contacts from YM app (if the phone number is support by YM). And if you choose Contacts Detail at YM it will show you whats in your phonebook contact accordingly including FB status from your contacts.
2. If you are using PingChat, you can link using PingChat app, or add it manually via phonebook. To add from PingChat app you could click link contact inside of the app. To add from phonebook you could add field->IM->Custom and type in PingChat insie the Custom Field Name and type in your friend PingChat ID for example : onetwothree (PingChat) <<== yes type (PingChat) too.
III. Powerful Contacts Avatar/Pic.
At the left side of your contacts name inside the phonebook lies your contacts avatar/pic. If you click the avatar, it will show you various pop up menu (most basic one is Dialer, Phonebook, and Messanging).
1. If you join your contacts with facebook it will show you facebook icon and when you click it, it will call FB official apps. (I guess this also applied with other join contacts? )
2. If you have either IM (mine is YM and PingChat), it will show you one of the icon whether it's YM or PingChat. When you click it, you can choose between the app and it will directly call the in the chat mode.
3. If you have address, it will show you Google maps icon too. When you click it of course it will show you the map location. ^_^
4. If you have email (I'm using K-9 Mail) it will show you K-9 mail and when you click it, it will bring the app in the send mode. (I'm using K-9 mail and Handcent, with the stock messanging and email the icon it's the same so rather confusing).
Will post more if I found anything else. Please share yours too. ^_^ .
Still have a Blurry Contacts Pic in call though (even using Timescape method <== thanks to tigermrk for mention it).
blurry contact pictures can be cured for facebook contacts at least by setting up timescape to your facebook and then that should automaticcaly sync to your phonebook then each contact will have 2 pictures when u click edit, then just long click the timescape picture and set as contact picture, save and exit
fully tested and working it really bothered me those blurry pictures lol
tigermrk said:
blurry contact pictures can be cured for facebook contacts at least by setting up timescape to your facebook and then that should automaticcaly sync to your phonebook then each contact will have 2 pictures when u click edit, then just long click the timescape picture and set as contact picture, save and exit
fully tested and working it really bothered me those blurry pictures lol
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Yeah already try that method, better than default but still it's blurry. Should be more crisp. Our device capable more than that. ^^
yep agreed there.
i thought you meant the first stage with no timescape setup were its even worse
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
Mano1982 said:
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
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You could long press on phonebook contact or facebook contact and choose Join Contacts. And choose which one you want to join. Hope it help ^_^ .
try to re-add the phonebook pictures again and your contact pictures will be better, so far it works for me
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You could long press on phonebook contact or facebook contact and choose Join Contacts. And choose which one you want to join. Hope it help ^_^ .
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Thank You so much it helped <3
Mano1982 said:
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
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There's an option somewhere that you can show only contacts with a phone number... although I quite like having Hulk Hogan in my phonebook!
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curious_yellow_eyes said:
There's an option somewhere that you can show only contacts with a phone number... although I quite like having Hulk Hogan in my phonebook!
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You could click three people button at the top left on your phonebook and there where the option sit.
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epinion said:
You could click three people button at the top left on your phonebook and there where the option sit.
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But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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The phonebook actually don´t work when you have two friends with the exact same name...
For some reason i have the problem that i have 8 friends, that in pairs of two have the exact same name (on facebook), in my phone i have given them alternative last names, or used their middle name when they have one, but the phone have combined them so they both is in the same contact now.
Pretty stupid system...
I can´t be the only one in the world with that problem...
Also an other annoing thing, is if eg. my gf have her phone number and e-mail on facebook, and i allready also had it in contact on the phone, then it will be there two times in a row when they are combined.
The system should be able to figure out that the same phone-number/adress/e-mail only have to be under a person once....
SE can make face recon., but can´t see that eg. two email-adresses is 100% identical...
I tried the system 4-5 days, but decided to shut it down again, as it was too annoing to use for real...
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2. If we join manually and our phonebook first name has the same name as the facebook first name, it will show you the name from the facebook. Example: phonebook name John, facebook name John Doe, it will show as John Doe.
3. If we join manually and have different first name from phonebook and different name from facebook, it will show us the name from phonebook. Example : phonebook name JOE, facebook name John Doe, it will show as JOE.
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I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
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I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
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Just call people by their right names. Problem solved!
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Visspui said:
But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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I saw this too, it seems like it is showing their email addresses, home numbers, every field we have some sort of contact details?!
Would love to know how to stop this too...
pshdo said:
The phonebook actually don´t work when you have two friends with the exact same name...
For some reason i have the problem that i have 8 friends, that in pairs of two have the exact same name (on facebook), in my phone i have given them alternative last names, or used their middle name when they have one, but the phone have combined them so they both is in the same contact now.
Pretty stupid system...
I can´t be the only one in the world with that problem...
Also an other annoing thing, is if eg. my gf have her phone number and e-mail on facebook, and i allready also had it in contact on the phone, then it will be there two times in a row when they are combined.
The system should be able to figure out that the same phone-number/adress/e-mail only have to be under a person once....
SE can make face recon., but can´t see that eg. two email-adresses is 100% identical...
I tried the system 4-5 days, but decided to shut it down again, as it was too annoing to use for real...
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Have you tried reverse join? The default one is join your phonebook contacts with your fb contacts. Try to join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts. Sometimes if I can't join, I did it this way.
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kbadone said:
I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
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Have you tried reverse join? Join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts.
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Visspui said:
But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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Yeah true. Haven't found solution yet. Anyone?
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epinion said:
Have you tried reverse join? The default one is join your phonebook contacts with your fb contacts. Try to join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts. Sometimes if I can't join, I did it this way.
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Can you explain a little more how to do this?
I tried viewing my contacts in the Facebook app itself then long clicked everywhere, tried menu button too, and found no option to link to my phonebook. Maybe I'm just missing something or don't quite understand what you mean :S Thanks
rvictorg said:
Can you explain a little more how to do this?
I tried viewing my contacts in the Facebook app itself then long clicked everywhere, tried menu button too, and found no option to link to my phonebook. Maybe I'm just missing something or don't quite understand what you mean :S Thanks
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I'm sorry if I make you or others confuse. Generally what show at phonebook is only our phonebook contacts, meanwhile now we had other contacts such as facebook, twitter, etc contacts. We can enable it by clicking three people pics at the top left of our phonebook.
For example if you check all fb contacts, the phonebook will now show your facebook contacts as well. From here you could long press your fb contacts and join it with your phonebook contacts. That what I mean before. ^_^
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Hi,
There is one thing that driving me nuts. Lets say I have a friend, whose names is John. In google, I have saved his email ID with name j.smith .. .. then his another email ID with johns .. .. and then finally his cell number with name john ..
After, I linked up all accounts in my HTC Desire People. I can see these three accounts in one single contact. Fare enough and perfect. But is there anyway, I can merge these three accounts into 1 so that it is synced to my Google Account and to my HTC Contacts?
Not sure if I understand correctly what you want to do but its something I've struggled with as well. There was a perfect app for this on iPhone/iOS but I have yet to find anything that comes even close on Android. Try Contacts Analyzer available on Market but it's dismal. Doesn't allow you a preview of the changes you're about to make before you commit them!
Didn't help that .. :s
Gmail Contacts
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.
You're in trouble if you have 1,000 contacts like I used to...the idea I think is to use an app that auto-works and gets the job done as a batch without you having to edit every single contact...then you can sync to Facebook and pull in some photos IDs...
Hi,
Anybody knows of an app that merges / joins contacts?
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
I´d like to have an app that does this on a batch basis so that I can chose to do so for all my contacts instead of merging / joining one by one.
I know I can do this one by one. Go contacts Ex gives this function without doing it for everyone at one batch job. You have to acceppt one by one...
I am using , Google, ActiveSync, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. contacts
Ideas?
Tiznom said:
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.
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This. Plus there is an option on Gmail to merge duplicates so you can at least have google do most of the sorting and merging for you. And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.
stankyou said:
And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.
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I think that's the most important idea about merging. My opinion's that any given app could mess things up and leave you with a lot of different linked contacts. Personally I prefer to edit all my contacts at my Gmail account so that I don't have to merge them again everytime I flash another rom for example.
If you're willing to take the time and patience for it it'll pay off to manually manage your contacts at Gmail.
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Hi,
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
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+1
I've been searching that function for long time since I moved from the stock sense rom to others, and still no app is giving me this. I even tried a lot of different contact manager but no one works really well.
About G contacts: I really care to keep the list "clean" and every contact linked with whatsapp, email, facebook etc, but sometimes it just lose the info, even if I've just merged that contact with the app I'm currently using (I'm running MildWild) and rsynced the G account.
Try Go Contacts Ex (free), it has various functions on merging contacts (by number, email etc.)
Thanks, this works nearly perfect.
Mine im using contapps free from market, try it if you want too!￣ω￣
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yeah try go contact ex it work for me
I think you should sync with gmail.
In sense I was used to have all my contacts shown with their facebook information within their phone numbers (I just need to pair them first on winmo).
I tried some sense Android build and I still have all the number connected to my facebook account, now I put on a senseless build that is 10 time faster so I'd like not go back to sense, but I miss that function, to have facebook pictures of friend, and birthday and their updates all bound to phone numbers..
All I have now is a contact list with my own names (they are not listed with name/surname) with phone numbers and all real names from facebook without numbers and only the email.
Is it possible to merge them again like in the sense contact list? someone knows how to do that?
thanks for reading
Please help someone.... i need an answer too....
Short answer: no
Long answer: In pursuit of same solution, the best i came up was to merge facebook with gmail, leaving out facebook in the phone alone. There's few ways to do it, but the easiest and most reliable I found, was to get yourself yahoo.com mail, pull facebook contacts into it using the integrated tool that they have (gmail should make one too :/) and then merge it back into gmail using gmail tools. This method however leaves out pictures. So to rectify that, get yourself a free app on market called "SyncMyPix". It will match your (now updated) contacts to facebook and get pictures. It's not perfect - resolution is smaller and you get F in the corner (Facebook F), but it works.
GL.
Edit Contact -> Join/Merge (Cant remember)... I join/merge my saved contacts with facebook contacts always. Using senseless build.
theredundant said:
Edit Contact -> Join/Merge (Cant remember)... I join/merge my saved contacts with facebook contacts always. Using senseless build.
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Well, that was a suprice find, thanks Edit contact->Windows hardware button->Join is the actual path.
Always thought XDA was the best!
Thanks guys
kardas666 said:
Short answer: no
Long answer: In pursuit of same solution, the best i came up was to merge facebook with gmail, leaving out facebook in the phone alone. There's few ways to do it, but the easiest and most reliable I found, was to get yourself yahoo.com mail, pull facebook contacts into it using the integrated tool that they have (gmail should make one too :/) and then merge it back into gmail using gmail tools. This method however leaves out pictures. So to rectify that, get yourself a free app on market called "SyncMyPix". It will match your (now updated) contacts to facebook and get pictures. It's not perfect - resolution is smaller and you get F in the corner (Facebook F), but it works.
GL.
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That about sums up what i did. The pictures dont matter. Once you put the combined contact info together then import in gmail, open the facebook app and sync all, the pics then show up on the phone in contacts.
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Edit Contact -> Join/Merge (Cant remember)... I join/merge my saved contacts with facebook contacts always. Using senseless build.
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Well, that was a suprice find, thanks Edit contact->Windows hardware button->Join is the actual path.
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Nice find, guys! I've been looking for this for a loooong time.
Hello guys.
As the title, would like to know how to sync a single facebook contact, with a name chosen by me, to a single phonebook contact, to keep updated on the status and photos.
Attention please:
1) I KNOW THAT THE APPLICATION "Facebook to Android" ASK ME TO SYNC ALL CONTACTS OR ONLY THOSE I HAVE IN PHONEBOOK. THIS DON'T INTEREST ME BEACAUSE THE APP SYNC ONLY FEW CONTACTS AUTOMATICALLY.
2) I'M TALKING ABOUT ANY ROMS "WITHOUT SENSE INTERFACE.
I would simply like to know, (FOR EG) if I have a contact in the phonebook like "John Vodafone", how to connect it to the facebook contact "John Smith" doing it manually, to be able to update his status, his photo etc etc ...
Thank you all for your help
PS. Sorry for my poor english...
hi.. as i know first u have to sync fb contacts..then go to your contact and press menu>edit then again press menu>join then u see a list of all contacts sync from differents accounts.just search a profile then click it thats all
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namila007 said:
hi.. as i know first u have to sync fb contacts..then go to your contact and press menu>edit then again press menu>join then u see a list of all contacts sync from differents accounts.just search a profile then click it thats all
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thanks but, in the new miui 2.3.3 when I sync a fb contact with phonebook one, the contact photo remain the same.
erestor6 said:
thanks but, in the new miui 2.3.3 when I sync a fb contact with phonebook one, the contact photo remain the same.
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if u want to dispaly fb photo in ur contact just edit the contact and click on the fb photo and select use as contact pic
namila007 said:
if u want to dispaly fb photo in ur contact just edit the contact and click on the fb photo and select use as contact pic
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This metod don't work for me, do not display new choise photo.
Android 2.3.5 on HD2
Hi all,
Maybe I haven't enabled some setting (still new to the android game, even newer to the Timescape UI) but is there some way to search and link your phone contacts to facebook friends?
I've seen this integration being done using a built-in HTC feature.. wondering if there's something similar in Timescape that i've just missed.
Go to Contacts --> Settings --> Accounts & sync
There you can add your Facebook account
kymochi said:
Hi all,
Maybe I haven't enabled some setting (still new to the android game, even newer to the Timescape UI) but is there some way to search and link your phone contacts to facebook friends?
I've seen this integration being done using a built-in HTC feature.. wondering if there's something similar in Timescape that i've just missed.
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search the market for life.contacts by sony ericsson, it's a gr8 app and lets you sync contact with facebook, it also emails you if you miss a call or text
AndroHero said:
search the market for life.contacts by sony ericsson, it's a gr8 app and lets you sync contact with facebook, it also emails you if you miss a call or text
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how do you guys get status updates to sync with contacts? i can get twitter updates to sync, but not facebook.
hey thanks for that guys.
@ thomassafca: yep i've done that, but what i mean is an app that runs through ur contacts, compares them to your facebook contacts and suggests whether u should merge the two.. not sure if that's what's happening atm tbh LOL but so far it doesn't look like a lot of contacts have fb details.
@androhero: thanks will give that a go, sounds promising.
haha tried life.contacts but if your contacts don't have the same name (e.g. first and last; most of my contacts in my phone are nicknames / first names only) it doesn't play too nice. would be great if you hv a clean contact list though, thanks for the heads up.
also (i'm an idiot) if you long-press a contact name in contacts it pulls up the context menu where you can select 'join contacts'. not quite what i was looking for (an automated suggestion app) but it'll do for now.
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haha tried life.contacts but if your contacts don't have the same name (e.g. first and last; most of my contacts in my phone are nicknames / first names only) it doesn't play too nice. would be great if you hv a clean contact list though, thanks for the heads up.
also (i'm an idiot) if you long-press a contact name in contacts it pulls up the context menu where you can select 'join contacts'. not quite what i was looking for (an automated suggestion app) but it'll do for now.
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life.contacts works great, as long as the first name of the person in you contacts is exactly the same as there first name on facebook
hey! if you're still looking for a way to merge phone contacts with facebook IE their picture or status, what i did with mine was go into contacts, click on a contact and select edit. once you're in the editing screen for the contact press the menu button and at the bottom of the screen it will say join with two funny looking arrows..and then if your contact name is similar to any of your facebook contacts, it has that persons profile and you just select it!
if you know the person's on facebook and it doesn't show their name, sometimes you can edit the phone contact so it has the same name as their facebook page and join the two, then rename the contact in your phone so not every person has a first and last name lol.
hope this helps!
AndroHero said:
life.contacts works great, as long as the first name of the person in you contacts is exactly the same as there first name on facebook
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I second this as Life.Contacts widget/account-sync does work. However, I would just as soon have native Facebook sychronization. It works on my Thunderbolt, it works on my Moto Droid A855 (OG Droid), it works in my dev environment Android Emulator. _WHY_ Doesn't it work on the Xperia Play? Even on the "stock" Android 2.3.2 on the Verizon version (R800x). The facebook app works fine, except it has no settings under the "other settings" option inside the app, and if you try and add an account listing under your system Accounts menu, it just goes right back to the account list.
(Also, no it is not moved to SD, installed to a SD-Ext partition or anything else, just normal internal storage install directly from the Android Market)
Anybody have any ideas as to why?
Why would anyone want to put there phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook? That is just stupid. Why not just post your credit card information while your at it?
ncaissie said:
Why would anyone want to put there phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook? That is just stupid. Why not just post your credit card information while your at it?
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No, we are not putting phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook. It is putting facebook data on your phone.
For example. I have a friend John Doe in facebook. He is also in my phone. When he calls me, his facebook photo automatically shows up. Same for all other friends.
It's nice to see new facebook profile pictures when people call me.
I c. But there are to many people in my Facebook that I wouldn't want on my phone. A lot of them I don't even know. They just add me because we know someone in common. LOL
I had a similar problem with gmail on my iPhone all of a sudden I had everyone I ever emailed on my phone. Even people I only emailed once to buy something on kijiji.
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Why would anyone want to put there phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook? That is just stupid. Why not just post your credit card information while your at it?
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Because your only meant to add your friends. People go crazy and add anyone they can its up to them.
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I c. But there are to many people in my Facebook that I wouldn't want on my phone. A lot of them I don't even know. They just add me because we know someone in common. LOL
I had a similar problem with gmail on my iPhone all of a sudden I had everyone I ever emailed on my phone. Even people I only emailed once to buy something on kijiji.
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That is why you just integrate the facebook info with only people from your contact list.
Whenever I start dialing a number, all my facebook contacts with that area code and first few digits start showing up as people to quick-select. In reality, only about one or two of these numbers are actually stored to my google account.
I have my contacts list to display only contacts with a phone number, and facebook contacts are set to be hidden, so if I were to search these people that auto-display when I'm dialing a number, they don't show up.
How do I prevent these facebook contacts from showing up when I'm dialing a number? Why do they show up when I'm dialing a number, but they don't show up in my contacts list? It's quite annoying.
PS) I'm running SRF 1.2 with genocide.
Probably because you have your facebook mobile linked to your phone
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masaidjet said:
Probably because you have your facebook mobile linked to your phone
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Bingo. When you install Facebook on your phone, just don't sync it. That would drive me friggin' nuts.
Hmm... but then what about maintaining contact pictures? The only way they can be updated is to sync your facebook contacts, to my knowledge. Right??
Is there any way to sync existing contacts' images with their facebook accounts, but prevent ALL of my facebook friends with phone numbers from popping up when I dial a number? It's TOTALLY driving me crazy!
Also, in the account settings I have my facebook listed TWICE. One must be with a built in facebook thing, and the other is from the facebook app. I'm not sure which is which. One of them only gives me an option to sync contacts. The other lets me set the sync interval, sync the calendar, and sync contacts. Both of these have sync set to OFF on the main accounts screen.
Open your facebook app. Press the "back" button once. Press the menu key. Select options. Find the option for syncing facebook contacts and turn it off.
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Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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traxtar944 said:
Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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Your google should've saved the fb contact photos on your contacts...I don't use fb anymore but the contacts in my phne whom I synced with fb a long time ago still have their last display photos lol
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traxtar944 said:
Whenever I start dialing a number, all my facebook contacts with that area code and first few digits start showing up as people to quick-select. In reality, only about one or two of these numbers are actually stored to my google account.
I have my contacts list to display only contacts with a phone number, and facebook contacts are set to be hidden, so if I were to search these people that auto-display when I'm dialing a number, they don't show up.
How do I prevent these facebook contacts from showing up when I'm dialing a number? Why do they show up when I'm dialing a number, but they don't show up in my contacts list? It's quite annoying.
PS) I'm running SRF 1.2 with genocide.
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I believe Its in the sync options. Make sure you pick sync existing contacts only and not all. All puts all your facebook friends into your contacts
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traxtar944 said:
Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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Try this:
Contacts > Menu > More > Display Options
Under Choose contacts to display click on Facebook, uncheck All Contacts.
Reboot. All the contacts you have in google should still sync with facebook and keep their contact picture updated.
Yeah, I did that quite some time ago, ringold. Only my google contacts show in the contact manager, which is great. But as soon as I try to dial a number my facebook contacts show up as options to select. Therein lies my problem... and I doubt I'm the only one who has it...
Blazinan, That's a good workaround for getting pictures linked to my google contacts, but what about keeping them updated? I know it's not a huge issue and probably sounds nit-picky and trivial... but it seems like it should be an easy thing to accomplish:
Google contact's pictures sync with facebook profile images, but my entire facebook contact list doesn't show up when dialing a number. wtf...
traxtar944 said:
Yeah, I did that quite some time ago, ringold. Only my google contacts show in the contact manager, which is great. But as soon as I try to dial a number my facebook contacts show up as options to select. Therein lies my problem... and I doubt I'm the only one who has it...
Blazinan, That's a good workaround for getting pictures linked to my google contacts, but what about keeping them updated? I know it's not a huge issue and probably sounds nit-picky and trivial... but it seems like it should be an easy thing to accomplish:
Google contact's pictures sync with facebook profile images, but my entire facebook contact list doesn't show up when dialing a number. wtf...
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Thanks a lot for bringing this to my attention
Now this is bugging the crap out of me. The steps that I suggested in my previous post don't work. My facebook contacts still show up when I'm dialing
This is bugging the crap out of me too!
You are oh so welcome... doesn't it seem like a quick line of code could add an option to filter out facebook contacts from popping up in the dialer? I feel like this should be a standard feature in all roms.
traxtar944 said:
You are oh so welcome... doesn't it seem like a quick line of code could add an option to filter out facebook contacts from popping up in the dialer? I feel like this should be a standard feature in all roms.
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I think I know why it's doing this. If you do the steps I outlined in my initial post, it will only show the phone numbers listed in facebook that actually have their number listed on their facebook profile. I don't think there is any way around this. But it does block the rest of the numbers who don't have their phone number listed on facebook.
Small consolation but at least it's not all my facebook contacts like I originally thought.
"Start Dialing a number, facebook contacts show up..."
It's ciq lol
I was actually about to open up a new thread about the very question but then I found this! I hope it's okay to post in this even though it's a month old.
I just got this phone recently and I hate how my Facebook contacts show up in the dialer too! I chose "sync only existing contacts" or whatever, which is what I wanted (to keep all their info and pics up to date), but I don't understand why Facebook contacts with phone numbers that I DON'T have in my existing contacts are showing up as well! Has anyone found a solution to this? Or have you guys just un-synced Facebook contacts? =/